Controversial power plant proposal on display

New plans for the proposed gas fire power station to be built in Tuggeranong in southern Canberra have been put on public display.

A consortium including ACTEW AGL that had planned to build a 210-megawatt power station near the Mugga Lane Tip announced last month it would scale down the size of the project.

The power plant was strongly opposed by Tuggeranong residents who said it would be built within a kilometre of houses.

But planning executive Neil Savery says he hopes the public takes advantage of the three-week public consultation.

"The public should take advantage of the opportunity that new notification period not be concerned, that they're previous submissions will be disregarded," he said.

"But we'd encourage them to come and look at the new documentation because it would be useful if they want to revisit their earlier submissions."

Mr Savery says the development application has been significantly altered.

"It still comprises energy generation on site and also the data pods that had previously been identified ... but it has all reduced in scale so the power station component is significantly reduced and there are less data pods on the site as well," he said.

But opponents of the gas station say they are still fighting for the site to be moved.

Resident Simon Byrne says many opponents of the facility want an environmental impact statement to be conducted at the proposed site.

"Even though it's been cut down, it still does emit well over 3,000 million kilograms of exhaust per year," he said.

"So it's not an insignificant device and we continue to believe that an environmental impact study needs to be undertaken."